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jensprite.bsky.social
UMN prof married to cranky poet ▪︎ middle-aged cat lady ▪︎ 〽️ Go Blue! ▪︎ I was on Jeopardy!, it was fun ▪︎ this timeline sucks
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link to comment on COVID vaccine policy, go!

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

you know he thinks it's going to be an actual dome made of gold

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

networking, baby!!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Dr Oz & RFK Jr say that there’s too much chronic illness & it’s their job to make people healthy Are they providing universal healthcare? Addressing the rampant spread of Covid that’s disabled millions of Americans? Funding robust public health initiatives? Of course not. They’re blaming the sick

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

please? ever again?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Every morning I wake up and read the news and just am overwhelmed by the stupidity of it. We're being subjugated by the worst people with the deepest levels of incuriosity deeper, in Thiel speak, than the deepest caverns of Moria

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

creepiest fuckers who ever creeped...why is their messaging about girls of various ages and dolls, over and over?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

The average American has three friends

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

HE IS NOT A FUCKING SCIENTIST GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Arresting judges. Threatening allies. Lying about trade deals. Trying to sell campaign merch from the White House. Floating a 2028 run. Deranged. Dangerous. Undemocratic. We must retake our democracy.

submitted 26 days ago • 936 comments

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

submitted 27 days ago • 522 comments

“It's not a partisan issue. It’s not an ideological issue. So who voted for this? I personally don't remember Donald Trump's campaign promise to cut breast cancer research and to make menopause harder for American women,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.

submitted 27 days ago • 54 comments

today was three Mondays in a trench coat

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Gun registry? No. Autism registry? Yes? Fuck ALL the way off.

submitted 29 days ago • 715 comments

Trans rights are human rights!

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

#GoBlue

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I have solved the mystery of RCV ballots for the mayoral election for anti-Frey voters. You have three rankings. Rank Fateh, Davis, and Koski in the order you want. The end.

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

we did just fine with NOT NEEDING TO TREAT MEASLES BECAUSE OF HIGH VACCINATION RATES YOU WORM-BRAINED DOLT jfc

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. In just a few short weeks, his actions on vacccines, fluoride and other public health science have shown how wrong he is for the job. Read & share our statement: apha.org/news-and-med...

submitted 42 days ago • 24 comments

send this yo-yo to the coal mines

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

share far and wide, call your reps, etc.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 44 days ago • 1137 comments

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

submitted 45 days ago • 715 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 48 days ago • 1032 comments

@booker.senate.gov show us how it's done, sir

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

I'd do a rotation of cats, Jeopardy! and The X-Files

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

It’s a beautiful day to love trans people!!! Photo from 2023 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

Let’s do this, Big10!! 💪

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

submitted 57 days ago • 306 comments

we're not throwing trans people under the bus for any fucking reason. None. There are two sides: the one that throws people under buses and the side that does not. Choose which one you are on.

submitted 63 days ago • 82 comments

Find someone you want to waste time with.

submitted 67 days ago • 12 comments

omg did he get all excited about this because someone called Canada the Great White North within earshot?

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

my colleague is sounding the alarm and we should all be paying attention

submitted 69 days ago • 4 comments